this comment from 'protestor' Christopher Duffy is both funny and infuriating at the same time. the ability to remove and impound vehicles was there all along and it shouldn't have taken five days to get around to it www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

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So the guards finally got the finger out and the protesters folded like origami at the first sign they might suffer consequences Why did we spend a week letting them run riot? This could have been resolved much earlier

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The apparent ease with which this has been done raises the question of why it wasn't done before half the country ran out of fuel. It could have been done three days ago.

Protestors: The government refuses to acknowledge our concerns Me: Holy shit! So they're not meeting with Farmers & Hauliers? Protestor: LOL no. They are Me: So...they're not discussing fuel subsidies? Protestor: Haha no they are Me: Which concerns, exactly? Protestor: Oh, you know the ones

The government are really going to allow the entire swathes of critical infrastructure to be shut down rather than confront these protestors. If there was an outage at a transformer station, cut power from an entire town and the protestors blocked access, would that merit a response?

“The government’s approach, for a very long time, has been to project powerlessness in the face of every inconvenience, to blame ‘global megatrends’ as Varadkar did in his goodbye speech. To make the public feel insane for even suggesting that the government can solve problems.” This week’s column!

This protest is a good litmus test of how many Irish people would've been convinced into voting for Trump, because he's gonna take on the elites

#speirgorm #fuelprotests

1: I am one of those “Sob Stories”, I had a medical procedure on Wednesday, I made it, but it took me twice the length it would normally (8 hours total in the car) while I was in white hot pain having to go back roads to avoid the #RoadBlocks #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #FuelProtests #SpéirGorm

Fuel protest leader James Geoghegan has animal cruelty convictions and Revenue judgments www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

It's always the ones you suspect the most... "He was fined €6,250 in connection with a number of offences including leaving an animal with its head trapped, not providing water, not burying carcasses and not feeding animals a wholesome diet." www.independent.ie/irish-news/f... #Spéirghorm

May be time to massively increase home solar power subsidies. Currently €1,800 — around 177k homes using solar. But at least 1m capable. No-brainer to double or even triple subsidy? Slash home energy bills and lessen dependence on oil/grid/diesel? www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Since 1973, Irish agriculture has received net transfers from the EU of close to €40 BILLION, dragging the entire sector out of poverty. Doubly sickening to see a recipient of this taxpayer largesse lecture anyone on “looking after our own people first”

An appeal to anyone with deeper knowledge of 20th century Irish traditional music - are the other names here also musicians? Frank O'Higgins was a notablfiddle player, but Michael Corbett and Pádraig S Ó Coirbard and Séamas Mac Mathúna? The 2nd page is pre WW1, but the names are later #irishMusic

I fully support people's right to protest but I don't support far right bullshit pretending to be about farmers and hauliers and I can't recall another protest ever being allowed to bring the city to a halt for 36 hours and still going without any consequences whatsoever

Right folks as one of the few farmers on here let me explain something really simple. We're currently in the busiest time of year, calving & lambing is ongoing and crops need tending The awful weather means contractors are also flat out So how representative do you think this lad is? #speirgorm

If this were a "Just Stop Oil" protest rather than a "Lets burn as much oil as quickly and as cheaply as possible" protest we would be entering day two of a health crisis in An Garda Siochana as baton arms across the country developed crippling Repetitive Strain Injury #Spéirghorm

the various Irish small business owners protesting today don't believe in taxation or climate change and the yankees pumelling Iran and choking global oil supplies is a useful wedge issue for them to try and get those two things off the table permanently

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This is what happened when people stopped traffic to protest a genocide.

A protest on the high cost of fuel that involves expending enormous amounts of the thing they are protesting costs too much. Next on the agenda will be buying and then demolishing homes to protest the housing crisis #Spéirghorm

He is risen

Keep going. Save yourself.

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We can use this crisis for good. 🚲 Roll out temporary cycle lanes 🚋 Make public transport free for a time ⚽ Car free days in cities 🚘 30 km/h speed limit in urban areas We do not have to double down on fossil fuels. We can choose a different path. My piece in the Journal this week.

The forces of evil hate it when old dudes link up

wow how embarrassing and evil that the americans are trying to abolish birthright citizenship. cant imagine any other country being stupid and racist enough to do that.

And from the same newspaper, datacenters through their direct actions can take down the national grid and it'll take two years before we actually make them change their processes... www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

More than there are available to the public in Dublin city

Be careful folks, today is April Fool's Day, which means that the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive. Don't worry though, tomorrow we will be back to normal, and the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive.

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Working on this little dock area rn for the snowy biome in Helmet Head. It's purely for visual and world building purposes but I think it's looking cool so far! The weird looking water is the Night Sea. A literal and metaphorical ocean that connects Planes of existence. #gamedev #godot #pixelart

Right Wingers Wringing Their Hands: "The left will have a bacchanalian orgy when DJT dies." Me when he dies:

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Reposting for #screenshotsaturday cause I don't have anything new to show today and I think this is cool. Hope everyone has a nice weekend 😊 #gamedev #indiedev #godot Ps, please wishlist Helmet Head if you like action-roguelikes (or even if you don't 😂) store.steampowered.com/app/4285450/...

WIP look at a new npc and his house for the hub/starting area. #gamedev #indiedev #godot #pixelart

So the Estonian Maritime museum has an interwar period British made submarine they just let you run (well crouch walk) around in unsupervised. The museum is also based in an old seaplane hangar that can be best described as having a "Bond Villain lair" aesthetic

My godson will love this. His parents found Godzilla clips was one of the few things that'd calm him in his first year and now he's rapt watching videos of people running around Godzilla themed stores in Japan. Grayson will have his GoGo

right. israel does not have the right to exist. it has the power to exist. this is because states do not have rights. the question "does the electorate of israel have the right to exclude people under its territorial control from the electorate" is "plainly not."

Do you want to get changelings? Cause that's how you get changelings.

Me (steepling my fingers): Well, we must acknowledge that many of these annual customs have evolved in a diasporic context. So, really, for us in Ireland to assert any kind of proprietorship over St Patrick's Day traditions is to miss the point- Wait, what? They're setting traps for *what* now?!